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- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
lean startup practices needed to be successful in entrepreneurial projects. "In government we announce something and wait to get it perfect. By using more experimental approaches, some public leaders are achieving success by testing and learning instead of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
importing a text file (e.g., .csv), you may need to request up to 10x the size of the text file. We discourage ongoing reading and writing of text files; to save time and RAM, try to read your text files into binary data files and work... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
think? Original Article The week that I write this, I needed help programming a television set for recording purposes. Before being connected with the cable company service representative, I agreed to provide telephonic feedback about the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
through the writings of Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and Friedrich Hayek among other foundational thinkers. "Many economists think of it as a positivist system that does not impose morality upon society, but this is not the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
asking those questions a few years ago, when writing a case about a Chinese luxury apparel company. The firm had members from China, Hong Kong, Germany, and France, who were all working together to meld Chinese elements with Western... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
specialists—including a professional climber, a doctor, and a photographer—each of whom scored points according to how many of their individual goals were met. For each group, the researchers designated a formal leader. In some cases they created feelings of power by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
leaders to challenge our school to do better. Jessica McNeill Assistant Director, Annual & Reunion Giving For hundreds of years there was a conscious effort to silence Black Voices in America. Words have energy and power so they kept us from reading and View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
productivity in a short amount of time,” the researchers write in their recent working paper Virtual Watercoolers: A Field Experiment on Virtual Synchronous Interactions and Performance of Organizational Newcomers. With corporate surveys... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
he went so far as to write 10 to 20 handwritten personal notes to employees at all levels of the organization each day to recognize those who were performing well. During his 10-year tenure as CEO, that added up to over 30,000 notes to... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
color on its staff and failed to live up to its equity and inclusion rhetoric. Writing in Fast Company, she explained that by failing to listen to employees, Wing had missed important information about problems that worsened as they went... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
developed into a giant industry, from 60 companies in 1860 to 700 companies in 1890. 8 The newly specialized field of advertising also grew exponentially as it became progressively complex. After the Civil War, for example, copy writing... View Details
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What Black Executives Really Want
executive at Blackrock, agreed to help me learn more about this through our joint research. I did not start out to write a paper—I just wanted to learn, to understand what was really happening in America and what racism was. HOW DID YOU... View Details
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist
priority in 2020. HBS committed to initiatives such as the “Juneteenth Case Pledge” and convened the Dean's Anti-Racism Task Force to work alongside the HBS Case Research and Writing Group to develop more inclusive and diverse teaching... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Kanter says that attention to the issues of numbers, narratives, networks, and new pathways helped these founders not only overcome their own professional obstacles, but elevate others. As she writes in the case: “Their stories raise the... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
decades—he has been at his current club, Manchester United, for over a quarter of a century. Under his leadership, United has become one of the world's most successful franchises in all of sports. So when I learned through an industry contact that there might be an... View Details
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
Corporations, Wells collects case studies from companies that have learned this lesson—some of them the hard way—and explains how all companies can strategize more intelligently. Michael Blanding: Why did you decide to write a book about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
themselves,” she says, noting that the same is often true in any workplace where differences exist. “The fact that we observed an engagement and openness to creating the relationship, despite those stumbles, was definitely one of the reasons to View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Research Summary
Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs
“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”
Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
"The most effective learning strategy depends on the situation," writes David A. Garvin. "There is no stock answer, nor is there a single best approach." In Learning in Action, he illustrated the diversity of learning organization... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
with them. The press wants to write about them. Cognitive referents have buzz. McDonald delves into how companies can come to epitomize a market in the working paper Becoming a Cognitive Referent: Market Creation and Cultural Strategy. An... View Details